Decent TV card?

[ZaX]

Lo all,

Im in the process of building a computer for a friend at the moment and they've asked me to put a TV card in. Anybody know of a good card for around £50-£60 ? I've got little experience with these things and I'm feeling a little too lazy to trawl the web.

Thanks.

 

[jellybeard999]

Anything from Hauppauge, i have the terratec Cinergy 2400 (a dual tuner pci-e card) and its £60ish , and with the latest drives, a solid performer

 

[ZaX]

Cheers for that mate will look into it.

 

[Firelord]

Had awesome results with Twinhan cards. Have used 4 3020c's and all have worked first time with MCE with no fuss. Low profiled and simple drivers. Best bit is £34 inc del each!

Hauppauge has just released a twin dvb-t tuner on a single card

 

[stocky]

My brother has a Hauppauge but he recommended the Nebula DVB-T over it - See classifieds

 

[Highland3r]

Love this Leadktec winfast card. You get crap loads of features (remote, timeshifting/PVR, loads of inputs) for a great price. The software versions are around 20-30 quid, and the hardware decoders are 50-60.

Not one of the great brands, but been really impressed with mine (TV2000 XP Deluxe)

 

[niko-time]

I would recomend the Compro VideoMate DVB-T300 Digital & Analog TV Internal PCI. It costs under £50 and I have had nothing but good coming from it. It looks better than my tV!

 

[Firelord]

Love this Leadktec winfast card. You get crap loads of features (remote, timeshifting/PVR, loads of inputs) for a great price. The software versions are around 20-30 quid, and the hardware decoders are 50-60.

Not one of the great brands, but been really impressed with mine (TV2000 XP Deluxe)

I had one and it was the most awful card I have ever used. Everytime used the PVR software would blue screen and had tried everything. took it back to supplier and apparently they have had lots of returns on them!

 

[unreal]

If you want the best its simple:

Nebula Electronics or Blackgold tv cards.

None of the others compare, I can personally vouch for the Nebula's! Mines fantastic and even better is that they just slashed the prices finally - now just £70 (compared to what was 100 or so..)

 

[fatty]

Anyone used or know of or used the Hauppauge WinTV Nova-T Digital terrestrial television Stick USB 2.0

 

[nick25]

If you want the best its simple:

Nebula Electronics or Blackgold tv cards.

None of the others compare, I can personally vouch for the Nebula's! Mines fantastic and even better is that they just slashed the prices finally - now just £70 (compared to what was 100 or so..)

I know you only said £50-60 but I would definately spent an extra tenner and buy a blackgold/sweetspot card.

 

[unreal]

Anyone used or know of or used the Hauppauge WinTV Nova-T Digital terrestrial television Stick USB 2.0

Stick? As in one designed for laptops? I'd suggest if you can live with a larger unit to get a decent one, I highly doubt the quality that a little stick can give.... Plus Nebula's software is better!